The concept of “Objective Covenant” is thoroughly biblical. In fact, the Scriptures cannot be properly understood apart from it.
In simple terms, the doctrine goes like this: so long as a soul is faithful to the baptismal vows she has taken in the church—and remains, by grace, loyal to Christ through the agency of the church—that person should reckon herself a saint, the very elect of God.
Objective covenant-keeping is manifested in Sabbath (Sunday) worship, in church; the right participation in the sacraments; the hearing of sermons; and the submission to church government.
Hypocrites and pretenders—who are really little more than spiritual adulterers—abandon their vows, and flee from local churches, just as soon as their sins are exposed or discovered.
But not the faithful: they remain true, through thick and thin. And all of this is by grace, and not through human merit (or effort, alone).
The Forum for Ecclesiocentricity is designed to educate Christians and non-Christians alike to understand the Biblical teaching concerning the Church (the "Puritan" church in particular), with regard to its principal role on the earth. When this is achieved, it is hoped that the Church would then be in a better position to convey Christ's redemptive virtues to the civil government (state), and the family. (You may email me at: markjhenninger@gmail.com)
